Role description Assistant Manager – Commercial Finance, Deal Governance & Pricing Function Commercial Finance / Commercial Excellence Location Bengaluru, India Reports To Head of Commercial Finance Works Closely With Sales, Delivery, FP&A;, Legal, and Business Unit Leadership Role Purpose The role owns commercial governance across the deal lifecycle — from pipeline hygiene and RFP review through pricing, deal structuring, and margin protection — and connects deal-level economics to firm-level P&L.; The manager acts as the commercial control point that ensures every pursuit is priced competitively, structured profitably, and governed with discipline, while giving leadership a clear, metrics-driven view of the commercial engine.

Key Responsibilities
Pipeline Governance & Review
• Run the periodic pipeline review cadence with Sales and BU leaders, enforcing stage-gate discipline, data hygiene, and realistic close-date and probability tracking in the CRM.
• Maintain a single source of truth for weighted and unweighted pipeline, flagging stalled, at-risk, and slipping deals.
• Track pipeline coverage against booking and revenue targets and surface gaps early. RFP / RFI Commercial Review & Deal Desk
• Serve as the commercial reviewer for inbound RFPs, RFIs, and large proposals — assessing scope, pricing assumptions, margin, payment terms, risk, and contractual exposure before submission.
• Operate a deal-desk function: standardise commercial approvals, discount thresholds, and escalation paths for non-standard deals.
• Partner with Delivery and Solutions on effort estimates and with Legal on commercial terms, ensuring bids are both winnable and profitable. Deal Metrics & Commercial Analytics
• Own and report the core deal metrics: Average Day Rate (ADR) / average bill rate, sold rate vs. rate card, win rate, and probability-weighted pipeline value.
• Analyse rate realisation, discount leakage, and win/loss patterns by service line, geography, client tier, and engagement model (T&M;, fixed-price,



outcome-based).
• Build benchmarks that inform pricing strategy and the shift from effort-based to outcome-based commercial models. Pipeline-to-P&L; Visibility
• Translate deal-level economics into firm-level P&L; impact — connecting bookings, revenue phasing, and gross margin to the financial plan.
• Build margin bridges from pipeline to booked to delivered, explaining variances across rate, mix, utilisation, and cost.
• Support annual operating plans and forecasts with a bottoms-up, deal-informed view of revenue and margin. C-Suite Commercial Reporting
• Design and present the commercial deck to the C-suite and Board, covering key KPIs — pipeline health, win rate, ADR / rate realisation, margin, and conversion trends.
• Turn commercial data into a explicit narrative: what is driving performance, where the risks are, and what actions leadership should take.
• Own the recurring commercial governance dashboard and review rhythm. Key Metrics Owned Pipeline coverage ratio
· Win rate
· Average Day Rate (ADR) / rate realization
· Sold rate vs. rate ccard
· Discount leakage
· Weighted pipeline conversion
· Bookings-to-revenue conversion
· Deal-level gross margin Qualifications & Experience
• CA / MBA (Finance) or equivalent; 5–8 years in commercial finance, deal desk, pricing, or FP&A; background.
• Prior experience in IT / analytics / consulting / professional services strongly preferred, with exposure to T&M;, fixed-price, and outcome-based models.
• Demonstrated ownership of pricing, deal governance, or commercial and finance review in a services business. Skills & Attributes
• Strong grasp of services-business economics (rate cards, utilisation, margin structures, revenue recognition).
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling; comfort with CRM (Salesforce or similar) and BI tools.
• Executive-grade communication and deck-building; able to influence Sales, Delivery, and Finance leaders.
• Governance mindset balanced with commercial pragmatism — protects margin without slowing the deal.

📌 Assistant Manager – Commercial Finance, Deal Governance (Bengaluru)
🏢 Tredence
📍 Bengaluru